Created by CQ Press, the CQ Electronic Library is an excellent resource for research in American government, politics, public policy, and current affairs and searches the online versions of CQ's periodicals and reference publications. Coverage spans 1983 to the present. How to Search This Database

Provides access to the publications of the United States Congress from 1970 to the present including Congressional committee hearings and reports, the Congressional Record, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, bill texts, and legislative histories for Public Laws. Online full-text availability for these documents covers 1989 to the present. This database provides access to McDermott Librarys U.S. Serial Set collection on microfilm. How to Search This Database

Constitutions of the Countries of the World contains the full text of current and historical versions of the Constitutions of 192 countries. All Constitutions are in English. It also includes introductory material and bibliographies to supplement and provide historical context for many Constitutions. Proposed and failed amendments are also included. How to Search This Database

Political Handbook of the World provides information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. Each country profiles include: key facts; government and political history; current Issues: political parties and organizations; legislatures and cabinets; communications. How to Search This Database

Lexis-Nexis is an index to a wide variety of local, state, national, and international newspapers. Lexis-Nexis also contains business and industry newspapers, company information, SEC filings and reports, and accounting literature. The legal research section of Lexis-Nexis contains federal and state court decisions, federal and state codes, and articles from law reviews. How to Search This Database

An exhaustive database of catalog records of United States Government Documents from July 1976 through the present. Although no full-text is available in the database, links to online versions of the actual documents are provided in many of the records. Items can be searched by browsing topics, or by keyword or identifying number (SuDOC#, OCLC#, etc.).

The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers. How to Search This Database

MetaLib is a database that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online. To learn more, view additional brief or detailed search information. MetaLib provides you with the tools to save results on an E-shelf or on a disk.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. How to Search This Database

This multilingual, multidisciplinary database is especially useful for the humanities and social sciences. Francis covers thousands of journals, books, and conference papers in many languages. How to Search This Database

HAPI is a source of information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI contains citations to journal articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in hundreds of social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

This database features 146,000 maps on multidisciplinary subjects such as politics, geology, the environment, biology, and history. It includes climate change maps, hurricane maps, earthquake maps, volcano maps, fire maps, animal and plant species distribution maps, current event maps, political outline maps, and topographic maps. All these maps can be printed or downloaded for educational use.

Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO) - a comprehensive source for gathering information and assistance on research methodology, from basic terminology to complex interactive maps depicting the relationships among different types of research methods. Access hundreds of online handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias; the entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series; journal articles; and instructional videos. Includes links to free statistical software, directories of research organizations, information on research ethics, and social networking sites for academics. Video Tutorials and Guides for Students and Faculty to help with research projects.

The Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database is an online service of the International Monetary Fund. GFS Online contains detailed annual statistical data – from 1990 forward – on revenues, expenses, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries. The Web interface allows users to browse the database, select series of interest, display the selected series in a spreadsheet format, and save the selected series for transfer to other software systems such as Microsoft Excel®. How to Search This Database

The iPOLL Databank is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for US public opinion data. iPOLL datasets include over 500,000 Q & As dating from 1935 to the present. Data is drawn from academic, commercial, and media polls conducted by over 150 US survey firms, on topics ranging from economic issues, politics, and elected officials to health, lifestyles, and social issues. iPOLL is updated daily.

Historical Statistics of the United States is the principle source for quantitative indicators of American history. Previously published as a two volume set, this expanded online edition contains considerably more information than its printed hardback predecessor, including twice as many pages of data and documentation and a tripling of the number of data series -37,339 in the new online edition. Previously including data on population, work and welfare, economics, and other government collected data, more than a dozen new topics have been added such as American Indians, slavery, poverty, nonprofit organizations, and data on the Confederate States of America. Also, the chapters in the new online edition are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, provide a guide to the sources, and offer expert advice on the reliability of the data and the limits that might be placed on their interpretation. More than eighty scholars contributed their efforts and expertise to assemble and document the data and to write the introductory essays. The data are readily available for charting, or statistical analysis, or regrouping across tables.

Full-text content of more than 8,000 issues of the weekly news magazine, The Economist, which presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological, and cultural developments and the connections between them. Each issue of this editorially-rich publication is fully searchable, and includes full-color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week. The many Supplements, Special Reports and Surveys which appear regularly in The Economist are also included as part of the archive.

Originally published in print form as a 28 volume landmark collection of historical scholarship, The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution is now available in online form and traces the Constitution's progress from Philadelphia through each of state ratifying conventions. Including not only the official records of the conventions, The Documentary History also includes notes and commentaries about the Constitution published during and after ratification. The database can be searched by keywords, personal name, state, and date range. Alphabetical indexes are also available.

Collection of primary-source full-text philosophy databases. Past Masters titles are usually comprised of the complete works of an individual author, and can include diaries, letters and correspondence. A list of available collections is available in the "Select a Title" box. UTD does not currently have a subscription to the POEISIS journal collection.

ProQuest's Digital National Security Archive online contains a large collection of primary documents on U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. It includes more than 94,000 important, declassified documents that led to U.S. policy decisions organized into 38 different collection areas. The documents cover the following areas: Afghanistan, 1973-1990; the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962; China, 1960-1998; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Guatemala, 1954-1999; El Salvador, 1977-1994; Iran, 1977-1980; the Iran-Contra Affair, 1983-1988; Iraq, 1980-1994; Japan, 1960-1992; Chile, 1970-1990; Columbia, 1948-2010; the two Koreas, 1969-2000; the post 9/11 world; Peru, 1980-2000; the Kissinger telephone conversations, 1969-1977; weapons of mass destruction; and other collections on the organization and operations of the U.S. intelligence community.

Provide access to digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. How to Search This Database

This database features the full text of thousands of books on economics and business and hundreds of pre-1906 serials from the Goldsmiths Library at the University of London and the Kress Library at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Published between 1460 and 1914, the books comprise the most comprehensive collection in existence for the study of world history, political science, philosophy, business, economics, law, and women's studies.

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